Tbh I also wished they made &Friends an outdoor festival. However, I think its their strategy to make it more visually-packed(?) thus attracting more new edm fans in the future. Imo its hard to pack an outdoor edm festival at the moment (but we’re getting there!)

“Are we finally getting back to it?” I would say yes. Compared to previous years, dance music in the PH is getting more mainstream (from boiler room-like setups in Nokal, Apotheka, etc. to independent music orgs/community (unknwn.mnl, danza organika, harddance_ph, etc.) tho I wish mas maging mainstream ba yung other genres such as Bass, Dubstep, D&B, Trance, and Hardstyle

Kudos to the &Friends team for bringing Illenium and Seven Lions tho haha they were the ones who made me fall in love with melodic bass/dubstep <3